“Jamaat in Bangladesh has all the rights to ask for Sharia laws”

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“Jamaat in Bangladesh has all the rights to ask for Sharia laws”

Syed Jalaluddin Umari, President of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind talks to Kunal Majumder on the ongoing crisis in Bangladesh and why according to him Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh is being ‘unfairly targetted’.

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  • http://Website ABDUR RAQEEB< CHENNAI

    Mr Kunal Majumdar has done a good ainterview of Amir Jamaat e Islami Hind, but where from he has arrived a figure of 10 crore people in Sahbagh demonstration which no media has given a figure.
    May I request the viewers as well as Mr Kunal to see what CNN has to say about Bangladesh crisis the link of which is given below:

    http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-935455

    Will Mr Kunal respond?

    • http://www.tehelka.com Kunal Majumder

      That was a genuine mistake. Local media estimates 10 Lakh i.e., 1 million people gathered at Shahbag square through the protest

      • http://Website Guruptra A B

        Dear Kunal it would be great if you only quoted that “local media”!

      • http://Website Adil Khan

        The figure never reached 1 million either. Dhaka’s total population itself is little over a million. The maximum it ever reached is 2 lakh that at times dropped to as little as 5000. Shahbagh square simply is not a big enough place to accomodate that many people that you have reported. It is unfortunate that you have reported such falsehoods in a journal that prides itself for its truthfulness. I hope that the editor of Tehelka takes note of this gross lapse.

        • http://Website piash

          lier, you are. Dhaka has more than 10 million residents.

  • http://Website NetTed

    The emerging judicial crisis in Bangladesh and the meeting of India’s Parnab Mukherji before the events became violent and after, with present Bangladesh PM Shaikh Hasina, has already sparked seedy rumours that might hamper the constitutional stability in Bangladesh as also disgrace the popular leaders on either side of the borders. Most erroneous politics in history has been where the handpicked tribunals were involved on the power’s side, erroneous because they involve HUGE bargains to abuse the undeniable *natural justice*. Wish Indian and Bangladesh leaders take a lesson from examples out of such tribunals in countries like Libya and Turkey within the past century.

  • http://Website anwar

    In a joint statement after a meeting between Sheikh Mujib and Indira Gandhi, the Indian government assured that it would give all necessary assistance for bringing war criminals into justice. In February 1972, the government of Bangladesh announced plans to put 100 senior Pakistani officers and officials on trial for crimes of genocide. The list included General A. K. Niazi and four other generals.[76] After the war, the Indian Army held 92,000 Pakistani prisoners of war,[77] and 195 of those were suspected of committing war crimes. All 195 of them were released in April 1974 following the tripartite Simla agreement between Bangladesh, Pakistan and India, and repatriated to Pakistan, in return for Pakistan’s recognition of Bangladesh.[

  • http://Website anwar

    so! Name of not a single Jamaat leader or worker was included in war crime suspects list of 195, prepared under Sk. Mujiburrahman (father of Sk Hasina), then head of the country.

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